Sunday, January 13, 2013

when friends give you lemons...

Mid-December
last my friend Kathy foisted off on generously shared with me the
lemons from her Meyer lemon tree. Three bags worth. Actually, she
snuck them in my car when I wasn't looking.

I
finally got around to juicing some of them and made a lemon pie. We
ate the pie too fast to get a picture.

After
I had juiced 2 of the three bags of lemons, I ran out of containers
to hold the juice.

Between
the lemon juice and the pecans and the containers of leftovers for
soup and the big bag of ice which we use in our cooler going back and
forth to the city, I am quickly running out of space in our small
freezer.

14 comments:

oh, lucky you! funny, but i was just drinking a mug of hot green tea with 2 fresh-squeezed lemons in it (using the same squeezer you've pictured there). i pay a fortune for lemons at the grocery store. i think a bag of 6 or 7 lemons cost $3.99 the other day. *sigh*

You can freeze the lemon whole and then "grate" the frozen lemon, peel & all, to go over pasta, vegetables, fish, chicken, & anything else you can come up with. The G-man read about this somewhere & it really is good... I keep a few in my freezer.

Someone sent me a tip about freezing lemons and then I grate the peel more easily (?Why?) so I froze a batch ... then I got fed up with the amount of room they took up so I took one out - when it defrosted it was so much easier to juice than a fresh lemon ...

Lovely, lovely lemons! Somewhere I have a recipe for a wonderful marinade from sliced lemons, kosher salt and olive oil. It ferments in a jar for a week or so, but is the best thing I ever put on a chicken breast. You can probably google it if you still have a lemon problem. Or maybe I'll get lucky and find the recipe for you!

Is that really pure lemon juice, no added water? That is a lot. What are you going to do with it all?

I have a small lemon tree in my conservatory (a sort of sitting room with windows all round). I’ve been wondering what to do with the lemons. Of, course, juice them. I’ll probably freeze the juice in ice cube trays, to use them in small quantities during the summer in drinks.